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Chris Health Care Reform still faces a long, tough road in the senate and it could be months, if ever before it becomes law. This hour we will look at how the proposed changes in the house bill would affect you with g. O. P. Strategist karl rove and obamacare architect jonathan gruber. But first, here in washington the right house chief of staff reince priebus. Welcome back to fox news sunday. Reince good morning. Chris the senate as we were saying is taking up repeal and replace. Theyre talking about a major rewrite that could take months. Take a look. Thats the way it works, right . They will pass theirs, we will pass hours and then we will go to conference. I dont think that the house bill necessarily predicts the senate bill. Chris a member of the House Freedom caucus warns they better not change it, the house bill, one iota. If they change it youre not going to have 218, the majority you need of votes in the house. Given that fact that it barely passed the house, what does the president think of the Senate Making major changes and according to them, they would be taking months to do it . Reince first of all, he thinks that, and i think, and a lot of people think this is a binary choice between what we know is a collapsing system offering no options, no coverage, and getting to a place that is calamitous for americans across the country, or a system in place that offers coverage, offers lower premiums, offers options, and we started the process, i think faster than anyone expected in the house. Thats what the president understands and thats what he believes. We also believe that its up to the senate, if there improvements will be made to make those improvements. I talked to 6 out of the 12 members of that Senate Committee yesterday, including leader mcconnell and others. Everyone is excited and excited to go to work and take the time necessary to look at the bill, make improvements where they need to be made and then the bill will be brought back for conference. Chris im asking you for a practical political question, just barely passed the house with one extra vote, a very delicate coalition. If they make major changes in the senate and they take months to do it, doesnt that risk nothing ever getting through congress . Reince i dont think so. I think everyone is committed to getting this thing done and getting it done as soon as possible. I dont think anyone is going to be beating down the door of this group of 12, we want to let them do their work, let them work this out. They are all very mature, they all know whats going on, the commitments that weve made to the American People to repeal and replace the failing program and obamacare. Im excited about where we are at, the president achieved something nobody thought he would. I think we were right to give the congress a party in the rose garden. This is just the beginning, its the first step. Chris lets talk about the commitment that youve made. During the campaign, heres the promise that the president made to voters about obamacare. I am going to take care of everybody, i dont care because we votes or not. Everybody will be taken care of, much better than they are taken care of now. Chris but here are some of the features under the house bill. Under obamacare older people, lets say 5564, could be charged three times as much as younger people. In a house built, its five times as much or even more. Under obamacare, people with preexisting conditions could not be charged more in the house plan opts out, folks with preexisting conditions can be charged more. Given that can you really stand by the president s pledge that everybody will be taken care of . Reince absolutely, and if you break this down, i will be very quick. In this bill on preexisting conditions, 176 Million People across this country can employerbased insurance. It doesnt affect preexisting conditions for medicare recipients, doesnt affect preexisting conditions for medicaid recipients and now youre down about 9. 5 Million People. If it doesnt affect anyone with continuous coverage, even if a governor, im not sure that will ever happen, takes the waiver option, it wouldnt affect anyone with continuous coverage. Lets assume that there are some people who might not have continuous coverage, they may not be in medicare, they might not be on medicaid, they might not have employer insurance. Chris thorough millions of people who fall into that. Reince would put millions s into highrisk pools to buy down any premium that they would have two pay for. Thats just in the house bill. What this tells you is when President Trump brought billy long, fred upton, greg walton and dr. Burgess into his office last week he said lets work it out, lets make sure this preexisting condition is taken care of. President trump made it happen, which should show every american to how committed he is to making sure that if you have a preexisting condition, this president is not going to let you down. Chris youre talking about that narrowly. There are arguments against it, we will talk about that in the next segment. The broader point, cdr released an analysis of the last bill, and lets put the stats up on that. By next year, the they said 14 annoying people covered under obamacare will lose their insurance by 2,026, 24 Million People were thats not taking care of everybody as the president promised. Reince we dont buy it that cbo score. We are also going to have more options for people, they will have Different Levels of options for people,. Chris older people will end up paying five times as much or more. Reince thats the old bill. Thats before. Thats before the amendments were put in and its also before the senate takes the bill makes it even better. The point of all of this, instead of getting in the weeds, go back to the beginning. If we go back to the beginning we have two options, continued on the road we were on with a failing, collapsing system that most people dont think is going to work, or start the process with a better system with more choices, more options, lower premiums, keep your doctor, all the things that President Trump promise. We started that process, guided through the house and now its off to the senate. We will get this done, we will repeal and replace obamacare and give americans the better product. Thats what the prisoner promised. Chris chris democrats say that the house bill will be a big drag on republicans politically 2018 midterms, heres House Democratic nancy pelosi. You have every bit of this bill tattoo on your forehead, you will glowinthedark on this one. Chris as we pointed out House Republicans are facing angry voters at town halls this weekend. The cook political report, which you know well, the kind of unofficial bible assessing house races, shifted its assessment of 20 seats now held by republicans in the direction of democrats. Not saying they will win them, but they are more likely for democrats to win. You could lose your House Majority over this. Reince these are the same people that said donald trump wasnt going to run and he ran, he wasnt going to win the primary and he won the primary. He couldnt get Health Care Repeal and replace through the house, he got it through the house. The fact of the matter is there are sometimes in life you have to do whats right, not whats politically expedient. We believe it will be a better product and by the time the people see that premiums are lower, a better service, more options, more choices, they will reward the republicans that stood up and said we are not going to see the obamacare system, which is failing and collapsing, continue any longer. He will do Something Better and we will do our job as legislators to get this thing done. I think that the Republican Party will be rewarded. Chris lets turn to another subject, Congress Passed a budget this week to keep the government funded until october. President trump said it was a big win. Democrats say that they rolled him on the white house. Let me put it out. Theres no money for construction of the border wall the president wanted, the bill continues funding for planned parenthood and sanctuary cities and while you did get more money for defense, you didnt get the big domestic spending cuts you were. 4. Didnt they get more out of it that you guys to . Reince i dont think the democrats got almost anything out of this thing. First of all, lets back up. They lost the parity role which means for every dollar increase in military spending you have to have an increase in domestic, they lost it. Thats one of the biggest colossal failures in the Democratic Party that no one is talking about. They lost on military spending, one of the biggest increases in military spending in the history of these increases. For the first time in six years our military is going to get a raise. With that 1. 5 billion that we can do work on on the border, including a 20foot wall that will go up or fences are existing today. We will be able to buy back the property that we need to continue the wall moving forwar forward. Youve seen pictures. Chris president talked about a shutdown, a possible shutdown in october. Will it be tougher in october to mike reince are not even done yet. They didnt get the csr payment. Chris your talk about being in the weeds, we are in the weeds. Reince right, but what im trying to tell the American People is President Trumps agenda move forward in this budget to move forward in this budget big league, as he would say. We will be ready for that fight in september and we are going to make sure that President Trumps priorities continue. Chris okay, speaking of the budget and the president s priorities. The president talked about fighting the opioid drug epidemic, put in a new Budget Proposal is proposing to got the White House Office of the drugs, i want to put this up on the scene. Funds for the office would be cut 95 , eliminating its two major programs, and the acting had emailed the office, these proposed cuts are frankly heartbreaking. Why would you cut the Drug Control Office by 95 . Reince first of all, thats a leaked document that i would tell you that nothing is final in this debate and discussion in regard to this particular issue. Good for the drug czar, he should take it serves the, thats his job. We have services in this regard all over the place, department of justice, the hhs. The first level. Secondly, i dont think any president showed more commitment in the first 100 days in regard to opiates putting a commission together, putting governor christie in charge. Chris people are surprised about the office being cut. Reince again, back to the beginning, a leaked document, nothing is finalized, work being done at hhs and doj, judge President Trump i his actions, not leaked documents and hypotheticals. The actual actions of this president with this epidemic coming up in this country. Chris we have about a minute left. New york times had a frontpage story yesterday that talks about you and how much you had writing on passing Obamacare Repeal and replace through the house. I want to put up im sure you will love these quotes. They report you viewed it as a personal make or break moment, another big loss on health care would probably have been an unrecoverable blow to an already weakened mr. Priebus. Reince [laughs] chris is this true . Reince no. I remember the last time i was on your show there was another quote from the New York Times and i think it was something on the lines of the person people are pointing to most for the failure of obamacare was reince priebus, and i kind of joke i think at the time, so when it passes am i going to be the one person in america that gets all the credit for the passage . Of course not. The president knows that, its ridiculous. If one person the west wing among thousands of participants participants it doesnt make or break it. Its a team effort but it was led by our quarterback President Trump and i can say with assurance to everyone without President Trump, and i think the speaker would say this and everyone in between, this would have never happened and got out of the house. He brought people together and it was a leadership we havent had for eight years previously to get these kinds of things done. Chris the New York Times accused you of being a nice guy, which only in washington would be considered a character flaw, how do you plead Quebec Reince i think im a nice guy, but i didnt get here by accident. Chris could answer. Reince, always good to talk with you, thank you for your time. Up next, a users guide for repeal and replace, we will ask two experts what it would really mean for you and your family. Yeah. The world of fast food is being changed by faster networks. Data, applications, customer experience. 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And from boston, mit professor jonathan gruber, one of the architects of obamacare. One of the big criticisms of the house plan is how it would treat Older Americans who dont qualify for medicare and how it would treat people with preexisting conditions, professor what is the problem there . Jonathan the problem is that for Older Americans their Health Insurance is very expensive and obamacare that is dealt with deliberating how much they could be charged for younger people and the tax credits that could limit the percentage of income they would pay for Health Insurance. That all goes away under the house alternative. The Medicaid Expansion goes away so for the elderly they dont have access to Health Insurance, a tax credits become black tax credits, not income based so the elderly have to pay much more for their health care insurance. Basically you have a system which is not as protective of those people. Chris lets talk about both aspects of this, democrats are now saying the fact that there isnt as much protection of people just shy of medicare, they are calling at the age tax and the compromise that the house passed does this about preexisting conditions, it provides states instead of high risk pools with another 8 billion extra over five years to help people with preexisting conditions, thats on top of 130 billion in the program to help states. But, democrats say, and you just heard a suggestion from professor gruber that that is still not enough. Karl was first of all take the 321 span that causes younger people on that act to subsidize older people. Its been expanded 521. Older people have Health Care Cost that on actuarial basis are about 4. 8 times those of younger people. But with god now is a system that if you want to call it a tax, we are taxing virtually everybody under the age of 50 by causing them to pay more for their premiums to subsidize the coverage of people over the age of say 54, 55 to reduce the premiums, despite the fact that older group on average has higher incomes, higher wealth, and less childrearing expenses than the people below that we are overtaxing. Before we had the Affordable Care act, 42 states have set the bandwidth at five 21. Chris i got it. We got to talk about preexisting conditions because that is really how the hot button. Karl the bottom line is theres a lot of trash being talked about up there, theres no change of preexisting conditions for the people who are in the Affordable Care act and are in states tha